“I’d Rather Be a Boy Any Day”: Gender Roles in Carson McCullers’s The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

This essay explores gender roles in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940) by American author Carson McCullers. Theories and texts by Judith Butler, Nancy Chodorow, Raewyn Connell, Don Zimmerman, and Candice West among others, are used to support the thesis statement that stereotypical gender norms ser...

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Main Author: Alfort, Nils
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle 2016
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-30093